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Gears, formerly Google Gears, was software offered by Google that "enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to the web browser. It allows some online files to be used offline". Released under the BSD license, Gears is free and open source software.

So we have an existing, fairly large, application that is using a synchronous javascript API. In this case Google Gears SQL. We are trying to demo for our clients that it is possible to get the app ...

I want to do something like a Google Googles but use only the Camera to text feature in it. I want to use the camera to take picture of a text image, and convert it into text for use with in a edit ...

I'm developing an application that relies on Google Gears WiFi Geolocation service, and I've noticed that the api can't get the latitude and longitude of users when they have only one wifi in range.
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I try to manage some changes at the code of Joomla Module file that show a google map to get it working center automatically on user location:
i found on the google documentation this script write in ...

I want to print out the coordinates calculated by a geocoding javascript ( maded with Google api V3 ), how can i do that??
and then, how can i pass this values to two variables ($Lat and $Long) that ...

I am looking into if it is possible to have a web application access local files. The application would be akin to a word processor metaphor, making the opening/saving of local files very direct on ...

So I have been developing a web application, and I have implemented the HTML5 geolocation feature. I have implemented this using Javascript code taken from Google's website, that interacts with the ...

If I'm using a client-side database like Google Gears or a WebDB implementation, what's the best way to escape the data to prevent SQL injection? Wrap it in encodeURI()?
Furthermore, do I even need ...

I am running Firefox 4 beta for testing, and unfortunately Google hasn't updated their Gears extension for Firefox 4. At this point, it even seems that Google might not update Gears for Firefox 4. Do ...

Are there any JavaScript wrapper scripts available that can use HTML5 JavaScript features if they are available (e.g. locaStorage / Web Storage / anything in common between Google Gears and HTML5), ...

What would you recommend for supporting drag and drop upload - that is being able to drag a file icon from the desktop onto some "zone" on a web page and have it uploaded to the server. THe options ...

Since today and yesterday I can't get Googles geolocation to work with my desktop firefox or IE browser or with my blackberry. This has been working for at least three months.
When I browse to their ...

I was able to setup geolocation accessibility in my webview for any android phone running 2.0 and up easily. However I really need to get this feature working on 1.5 and 1.6 phones as well. From what ...

How Gmail creates localcache for supporting offline?
I found by check the http requests while syncing that it is done by simulating the http requests like webclient, is it correct? If yes, is this a ...

I made a javascript class that let me use gears or html5 (if available) storage to store an stringified json object. the code is ment to be use on Android 1.5 and 2.0. When I save many objects into ...

I have been reading about creating offline websites using Gears and using HTML 5. Im curious as to advantages and disadvantages of the two in regards to an ASP.Net MVC2 applcation with a SQL Database ...

I created a database via javascript using Google Gears on Android 1.5 and I'd like to access directy the sqlite file to look inside it whitout using Gears. I found several "File Browser" but they only ...

I have an application in asp.net MVC (C#), which has some basic user registration to maintain their contacts and also some other information of the users in various tables.
I need to implement Google ...

I use JavaScript for rendering 20 tables of 100 rows each.
The data for each table is provided by controller as JSON.
Each table is split into section that have "totals" and have some other JavaScript ...

I'm using Google Gears to be able to use an application offline (I know Gears is deprecated). The problem I am facing is the synchronization with the database on the server.
The specific problem is ...

I want to build a web application (SaaS) that can work both in Online and Offline modes. The user needs limited features in case he is offline and full feature access when he becomes online again. I ...